Typographical machine.



D. S. KENNEDY. TYPDGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED AUG. 14, m4.

Patented M11220, 1915.

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Davin snaawoon KENNEDY, or BROOKLYN; .mswxomz, ASSIGNOR TO THALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A oonrona'rxon or NEW YORK.

MERGER- TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

I, Specification of Letters Patent. Paten eq pr, 20,1915,

Application filed August 14, 1914. .Serial No. 856,762.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID SHERWOOD KEN- -NEDY, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Brooklyn, inthe county of Klngs and tice to make use of matrices representing characters other than those controlled by the keyboard. These extra or sorts matrices are inserted by hand into the line in the course of composition and are subsequently delivered to the distributor, from which ordinarily they descend through a receiving tube into a pi-stacker 0r receptacle, at the front of the machine.

In machines wherein are employed a plurality of magazines, any one of which may be selected and brought into operation, the

larger and more varied assortment of characters provided thereby is again supple- I mented by the employment of additionalor sorts matrices, which correspond'more or less in face or style to the face or style carried by the active magazine. For instance, in my U. S. Letters Patent, No. 1,064,487, or in U. S. Letters Patent to N. Dodge, No. 1,078,612, is illustrated a. plurality of receptacles or pi stackers, one for each magazine, in combination with automatic means whereby one or .another will be rendered active ously.

according to the magazine selected, so that the sorts appertaining to each magazine will be received in a separate receptacle, and will be thus readily available to the compositor without the necessity of searching through a. mixed mass to discover the particular face or style desired. 1 7

It is a prominent feature of my present invention to .provide'means whereby the sorts matrices may be delivered to all of the receptacles or pi-stacking devices simultane- One 0 the principal advantages of thisfarrangement is that it becomes ossible tjo-mix sorts matrices-of different cuts or styles and subsequentlyfsecure their auto matic delivery to the appropriate reccptacles. This I preferably accomplishby the employment of a plurality of tubes or conductors leading from a common distribute: to each of. the sorts receptacles, and by form ing the distributor with additional combinations. adaptedto cooperate with the respective combinations of the different sets of sorts.

- the accompanying drawings, I have shown my invention only in preferred form and by way of two specific styles of machines, but many changes and variations may be made there-- In, and in its mode of application, which will stillbe comprised within its spirit. Generally speaking, I desire it to be under:

stood that I do not limit myself to any spe- .cific form or embodiment, except in so far specified in the as such limitations are claims. Referring to the drawings: Figure l'is aside elevation of a portion of a linotype machine, having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2- is a rear view, partly broken away, of apart of the distributing mechanism, etc.; Fig. 3 illustrates the forms of sorts matrices adapted to cooperate therewith; Fig. ff is 'arear view, partly broken away, of a portion of another style of machine, with my improvements embodied therein; and Fig. 5 illustrates the forms of sorts matrices adaptedto cooperate therewith. I Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the different fonts of ordinary matrices are stored as usual in the several superposed magazines A, three of which are shownby way of illustration, and any' one of which may be example, and as applied to brought into operative relation to the single preferably stored in the receptacles or smuringdevices D D D-=, respectively, and after their employment line are deliv constitute no part of my present-in}; vention. The srts matrices X X X ,='afe eredto'the same distributor bar. To permit bination B to release the matrices X} into the tube or conductor C through which theypass to the receptacle D and with the special combination B to release the mat rices X into the tube or conductor C whereby they are returned to the receptacle D and the end of the baris so located that the matrices X passentirely along it and drop into the tube C whereby they are restored to the. receptacle D. In this arrangement, the upper ends of the tubes are in close proximity to each other and the matrices pass into them from the bar at contiguous points.

chine is illustrated,:equipped with a series of superposed magazines F, and at the side thereof an additional magazine G. In this.

.instance also a single distributing bar E is employed, but of extended length so as to deliver matrices to the operative" one of the .magazines F, and false to the further magazine G, all in the manner wellunden stood in the art. In this mechanism, the tubes or conductors C and C are not mounted in close proximity, but at a considerable distance from each other, the former being located between the magazines F and the magazine G, and the latter beyond the magazine G. correspondingly, the bar E is formed with the special combination E" located above the conductor C so asto' deliver the sorts matrices X into it, and terminates just short of the conductor C so that the sortsmatrices X will drop off the end of the .bar into the said eonductor. The matrices X and X with their corresponding toothed combinations Y and A Y are shown in Fig. 5. It will be seen that the general principle involved, namely the simultaneous delivery of difl'erent kinds of sorts matrices to their appropriate receptacles from different points of the same dis tributing apparatus, is the same in both styles of mechanism, and that the several modes of application simply illustrate theadaptability of the inventi'onto various conditions.

It will be observed that in combining the difierent sets of matrices, ordinary and sorts, the formerare provided in the usual manner with. distributing combinations ac-. cording to character, and each set of the latter with the same combination irrespective of chamotoeg and. that the diiitrib uter In Figs. 4 ankle, a different style of ma-.

bar is correspondingly provided with a series of combinations to cooperate with those of the ordinary matrices, and with additional combinations to cooperate with those of the sorts matrices, the number of such additional combinations being the same as the number of sets of sorts matrices. In other words, the distributor delivers some matrices at difierent points according to chmfacter and others at other points irrespective of character. In this way, it is possible to distribute the sorts matrices into a plurality of receptacles or pi-stackers at the same time, so that matrices fromany one or all of the receptacles may be set in line with matrices from any one of the magazines, thus permitting matrices of various kinds, sizes or fonts to be composed in' the same, line for producing matter of many different descriptions.

As previously stated, I have shown my-in vention only in preferred form and byway claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the'Unit-ed States, is as follows:

1. In a typographical machine, the com-- bination of achanneled magazine to contain a regular font of matrices, a distributor to deliver the matrices into one or another of thechannels according to character, a plurality of receptacles wherein the sorts "matrices are arranged irrespective of character and in an exposed condition to permit their ready withdrawal by hand, and means whereby the sorts matrices may be delivered from the distributor to all of said receptaclessimultaneously.

2. Ina typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a dis tributerto deliver the matrices thereto, a plurality of receptacles wherein the sorts matrices are arranged, irrespective of charactor, and in an exposed condition to permit their ready, withdrawal by hand, and a correspondingplurality of tubes or conductors leading from the distributor to the respective receptacles. t

3. In a typographicaljmachine, the combination of a plurality 'ef-iinagazines, a distributer common to all of said'magazines, a plurality of sorts receptacles, one'for each magazine, and means whereby the sorts matrices may be delivered from the. distributor v ductors-leadi'ng from the distributerlto the HAROLD A. BURT,

magazine, and a correspondin plurality of ing an additional distributing combination tubes or conductors leading Erom the disto deliver the sorts matrices into one of said tributer to the respective receptacles. tubes, and being arranged so as to allow 5. Ina typographical machine the comother sorts matrices to drop from the end 15 bination of Y a channeled magazine, a disthereof into another of said tubes. tributer having a series of'distributing com- In testimony whereof, I have 'afiixed my binations, one for each channel of the magasignature in presence of two Witnesses. zine, a plurality of sorts receptacles, and a DAVIDSHERWOOD KENNEDY. corresponding plurality of tubes or con- -Witnesses:

respectivereceptacles, the distrihuter -haY-' Cmnmcs F. ERICKSER. 

